Spirit of Anthropos

During the 2010s people talked about internet pipelines to fascism but that was mostly just a thing for already very online nerdy people obsessed with politics. Now it feels like everything on social media is genuinely Hitlerization hypnotism except it’s not epic debatebros talking about shit in a way only a professional gamer could be invested in, it’s aesthetics and slop appealing to the desire to surrender to domination to feel stability and security. Like the trad wife shit, the alpha males, the Christian slop, the motivational content, the pop philosophy shit that’s promoting the fascistized version of Stoicism or Nietzsche, etc. And of course it’s usually being done to shill for some scam as well lmao

bell hooks mentioned going through a time in her life where she was severely depressed and suicidal and how the only way she got through it was through changing her environment: She surrounded her home with buddhas of all colors, Audre Lorde’s A Litany for Survival facing her as she wakes up, and filling the space she saw everyday with reinforcing objects and meaningful books. She asks herself each day, “What are you going to do today to resist domination?” I also really liked it when she said that in order to move from pain to power, it is crucial to engage in “an active rewriting of our lives.”